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France have already qualified for the EuroBasket Women 2009 in Latvia and not participating in the Additional Qualification round (ADR.

However we will be following the progress of teams with players currently playing in the French league and also players who have made their mark in the French league.

The players of interest from Bulgaria are Ekaterina Dimitrova currently playing for Basket Landes in the LFB and Jaklin Zlatanova who played for Tarbes in the last three seasons and is currently playing in Spain.

For Belgium there are Laurence van Malderen, playing for the French club side Aix-en-Provence and Sara Leemans for Cob Calais.

For Croatia there is Ana Lelas currently playing for Bourges Basket and Petra Stampalija who spent four years in the French league.

We will also follow some of the games from the EuroBasket Women 2009 relegation group games as there are players who are currently playing in France on some of the rosters.

On this page you find full game reports from the matches between Croatia against Belgium and Finland against Great Britain with short summaries of the two other games.

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Croatia who are without Sonja Kireta for the January EuroBasket Women Additional Qualification matches did not waste much time in getting into their rhythm and opened the scoring with a three-pointer from Ivana Jurcevic (below right in picture).

Croatia stepped on the accelerator to outscore their guests (17-5) to win the first period (34-15).

The hosts continued to dominate for the first three minutes of the second period (40-23). Yet Croatia made the mistake of dropping their guard for three minutes allowing Van Malderen and Leemans to score 7 unanswered points.

However Croatia regained control with Andja Jelavic leading the way to go into the break with a comfortable advantage.

Croatia were never in danger for the rest of the EuroBasket Women qualifier match and went on to win the match (103-81).

Lelas who plays for Bourges Basket led the scoring with 23 points for Croatia while Leemans who is playing for Cob Calais led Belgium with 29 points. Van Malderen who is playing at Aix-en-Provence scored 17 points.

Bosnia's young side no match for the more experienced Romanian side

Bosnia and Herzegovina are another nation planning for the future. Their side was led by youth internationals Matea Tavic (10 points) and still only 16 years old and Irena Vrancic (12 points), another youth player who we spoke to last summer in Macedonia.

They were two key players for Bosnia in their first match against Romania.

Bosnia's leading scorer was 19-year old Anja Stupar with 13 points.

On the other hand Romania's squad was led by 38-year old veteran Svetlana Dragusin who scored 29 points as Romania ran out winners (101-68).

Ann-Marie Parau who played for SJS Reims last season scored 9 points for Romania.